Orchids to …
• Tony Fields, Teresa Caldwell and Scott Fields for cleaning gutters and raking leaves while I recover from surgery, from your father.
• my neighbor, Steve, and son, Jeff, for cutting down trees and pulling them out of the way so another neighbor can cut them up for wood, from an old friend.
• the anonymous family that bought our breakfast at Cracker Barrel on Saturday, from the Knott family.
• American Legion Post 54 for wreaths honoring veterans at Mount Olive United Methodist Church and Shiloh Baptist Church.
• the man from Lowe’s for helping me get the salt for my water softener to my car on Wednesday.
Onions to …
• the sporting event announcers for talking over one another, making it impossible to understand either one.
• the city for its plans to buy a failing mall when $5 million could put up a lot of railroad crossing gates.
• the 2:38 a.m. train horn.
• people who feel a need to complain about two words printed in the paper and don’t know why those two words were used.
• the person who wrote the letter about Democrats that contains no proof of accusations.
• the mobile phone company for telling a 75-year-old that she got five free items, then billed her for those items plus unwanted insurance.
• those who want to live in an agricultural area but want all the farmers around them to observe city rules for their benefit.
• the city for wasting our money buying a dying shopping mall and potentially contaminated industrial land.
• whoever dumped their trash in my yard in Bethel Village.
• contractors that took advantage of an elderly customer.
Happy Birthday to …
• Anita Feese
• Jackie Maschino, from everyone in the family.
• Fred Stadtmiller, from your seat mates at St. Bartholomew Catholic Parish.
• Mechelle Ritchison, from Mom.
• Elijah Downey.
• Martha Shaffer, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Martha Shaffer, from Carol and Gloria.
• Martha Shaffer on No. 97, from her family.
Happy Anniversary to …
• Steve and Jenny Wallace, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
